From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GuKyr-0001Z6-Pd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:40:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBD3cPcb029139; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:38:25 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBD3cPBA012961 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:38:25 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GuKwo-0003CQ-1n for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:38:22 +0100 Received: from ip68-231-13-122.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.13.122]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:38:22 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-13-122.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:38:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Supermicro H8QME-2 motherboard Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <457B093A.3000809@earthlink.net> <457B3B7D.9010301@gentoo.org> <457EDA84.5070203@virtadpt.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-13-122.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: pan 0.120 (Plate of Shrimp) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 613c7bf1-300e-467e-a487-a50329d45d32 X-Archives-Hash: 12185a69f4b31f5ed7f67558a8c02c68 The Doctor posted 457EDA84.5070203@virtadpt.net, excerpted below, on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:36:20 -0500: > Seconded. It doesn't really work. You can define arrays in the > controller configuration but when you boot Gentoo it sees separate drives, > and what little RAID hardware there is on the board doesn't do anything. > You're better off with LVM over software RAID from the get-go. I'd prefer md kernel-based RAID in any case, just as I've implemented it here on a Silicon Image SATA-RAID chipset. There's firmware/kernel-dm based RAID for it, but I prefer the md-kernel-based-RAID. If a drive goes out, no big deal. However, with md-based RAID, the mobo or SilImg chip can go out as well, and all I have to do is plug the drives into any SATA standard hardware, rebuild the kernel with the appropriate SATA driver, and I'm off and running. Try /that/ with the proprietary hardware solutions! FWIW, four SATA drives, RAID-1 /boot, RAID-6 (so two-way striped, two independent parity stripes, two of the four can go down) main system, RAID-0 (4-way striped for speed and capacity, no redundancy) temporary stuff (/tmp and the like, ccache, portage tree, kernel trees, everything that's easily redownloadable or just scratch, thus redundancy not needed). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list